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The Way of the White Clouds

Author: Lama Anagarika Govinda
Keywords: Tibetan Buddhism; Meditation; Lama; Mysticism
Language: English
Collection: opensource

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Lama Anagarika Govinda was one of the last foreigners to journey through Tibet before the Chinese invasion of 1950. A devoted Buddhist and a spokesman for Tibetan culture, Govinda's luminous and candid account is a spectacular and gloriously poetic story of exploration and discovery, and a sensitive and lucid interpretation of Tibetan traditions. Robert Thurman's perceptive new introduction to the volume places Govinda's writings in historical context and opens a new door on understanding Tibet, Buddhism, and the life of a remarkable man who, as Thurman remarks, is "undoubtedly one of the West's greatest minds of the twentieth century, a member of the pantheon that includes Einstein, Heisenberg, Wittgenstein, Solzhenitsyn, Gandhi, and the Dalai Lama."

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Reviewer: tonetto - - September 20, 2010
Subject: Superb!
Since Lama Anagarika Govinda wrote in his mother-tongue, German, I have the German original in hard-copy ... and what a superb book it is!

One needs to read such authentic and enlivening writing away from the clamour and confusion of everyday life to savour something of the splendours of Tibet, and of the Divine Life that is physicalised there in such myriad ways!

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